Women and rhythm-section first!?
People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.
Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.
There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.
Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.
I grew up listening to Beethoven and old jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Anita O'Day. But those were, like, the only women I listened to - I hated women pop singers.
You know, I try not to think too much about women guitarists versus men guitarists; the world does that for me.
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
There seems to sometimes be an entire genre called 'female-fronted metal.'
